Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Praise the Lord and pass the RF filters Message-ID: Date: 16 Jul 89 06:55:55 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Mike Morris Lines: 34 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 240, message 9 of 11 John Wheeler writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 232, message 12 of 12 >......here in Atlanta, the >50,000 clear channel watts of WSB eminate from right in the middle of >the parking lot at Northlake Festival Shopping Center. >One of these days I swear I'm gonna take a florescent tube out there >just to see if it glows...betcha it does! It will... One of my hobbies is amateur radio, and the home of 90% of Los Angeles' TV and FM stations is 8.5 miles (at a 35 degree up-angle(!)) from my house. Also the home of our autopatch repeater. If you plug the antenna cable (yes, the one going to the antenna) into a dummy load / power meter, you see over 20w coming down! Also the outside light over the building door is a 100w bulb, and shines at about 60w level - on a one turn loop of #12 wire - yes, for DC the socket is shorted. And the workers on the mountaintop (7 VHF TV stations, 6 UHF stations, and I'm not sure how many FM, but at least 12) use flourscent tubes as flashlights. To "turn them off" they are kept in mailing tubes... A friend of mine is the weekend engineer at a local spanish language 10kw AM operation that runs a directional pattern - 4 towers, 3 during the day, 3 at night (2 common). Don uses a flourscent tube to read the antenna current meters at the feed points. I'd be careful handling a tube around a 50kw station, you could get a nasty RF burn - and they take forever to heal (mine took over 5 times as long as a similar soldering iron burn I got a few years ago). US Snail: Mike Morris UUCP: Morris@Jade.JPL.NASA.gov P.O. Box 1130 Also: WA6ILQ Arcadia, Ca. 91006-1130 #Include disclaimer.standard | The opinions above probably do not even